StubHub interview notes, page 1 of 3

“This one took me a second to settle into.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question has a lot of surface area and I didn't pace myself well.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question where you can ramble forever and still feel like you said nothing useful.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“They gave you starter code with Event, Customer, Inventory, and Coordinates classes plus a few services, and the whole point was to not reach for if-else chains.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Knew this one from a forum post so I wasn't starting from zero.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight for a city-to-events dictionary built at init time, which felt right.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one sprawled fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“They cut me off pretty fast when I started drifting toward team coordination stuff.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight into a war story about an outage we had, talked through how we diagnosed it and what we rolled back.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I picked a distributed caching issue I'd dealt with before, but I kind of rambled through the setup and didn't get to the actual tricky part until they nudged me.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at StubHub, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.